Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a tinker; like a tinker, or a tinker's work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare After the manner of a tinker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the manner of a
tinker .
Etymologies
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tinker + -ly
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Examples
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"alehouse and tinkerly stuffe, nothing worthy a scholar or a real gentleman."
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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